Moyers provided a ringing and stinging keynote in which he called the battle against deregulation a "struggle for the soul of Democracy."

One of the targets of media reformers has been Sinclair and its "centralcasting" local-news strategy. So how did Sinclair’s Fox affiliate, WMSN-TV Madison, cover the story?

Actually, the station doesn’t produce its own newscasts. That’s done by ABC affiliate WKOW-TV through a news-sharing agreement.

According to a news staffer there, WKOW-TV sent a reporter and crew, which provided a minute-and-a-half "nuts-and-bolts" piece for both station’s newscasts, with about a 30-second follow-up the next day.